Rate My Professor Yuzhou Zou

Zou's research has produced several key publications, including 'Asymptotic Expansion of the Eigenvalues of a Bathtub Potential with Quadratic Ends' in Communications in Mathematical Physics (2025), 'The hyperbolic X-ray transform: new range characterizations, mapping properties and functional relations' with Nikolas Eptaminitakis and François Monard in Inverse Problems and Imaging (2026), 'Helmholtz quasi-resonances are unstable under most single-signed perturbations of the wave speed' with Euan A. Spence and Jared Wunsch in Journal of Differential Equations (2025), 'The Morse index theorem for mechanical systems with reflections' with Jared Wunsch and Mengxuan Yang in Nonlinearity (2024), and 'Boundary triples for a family of degenerate elliptic operators of Keldysh type' with François Monard in Pure and Applied Analysis (2024). He has received awards such as the Mathematics Distinguished Service Award from Stanford University Department of Mathematics (2021), the Robert Osserman Teaching Award from Stanford (2019), Honorable Mentions for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2018 and 2016), and the Paul R. Cohen Memorial Prize from the University of Chicago Department of Mathematics (2016). Zou has delivered numerous invited talks at conferences including the Great Lakes Mathematical Physics Meeting (2025 and 2024), SIAM Conference on Imaging Science (2024), and Applied Inverse Problems 2023 in Göttingen, Germany, as well as seminars at institutions like UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and Northwestern University.